The next step

[J Feez]

No thank's for your input there Tim. Everything you said I have been considering. I think I would really like to move to a sand substrate, but do you know of a good way to put it in there without clouding the water for a week?

[Kabong]

I dont think there's any easy way to swap out for sand, But its defintlay better to do it now rather then later.
The two ways that ive heard off are

1. Bomber bags:
Turn off your power heads,
pre wet some sand, place it in a sandwich bag place,
open the bag at the bottom of your tank and slowly pull the bag up until all the sand come's out.

2. Sand syphon. (works best when doing water change)
Take a gallon of water out off the tank into a bucket.
Add sand to the bucket and let it settle over nite.
Syphon the sand into the bottom of your tank.

Both ways are going to be messy and should be done in stages.
Most reef life can handle sand getting kicked around anyway. It happens every time there a storm.

[Kabong]

I run mechanical filtration on my nano and yeah i clean the sponge weekly.
But time frame whould all be relative to your bioload.

[J Feez]

So I guess the best thing to do would be to keep running the filter right now until I get all the LR and then get rid of it? Or could I get rid of the filter now?

I'm just uploading some pics right now